Greil Arthur L, Johnson Katherine M, Lowry Michele H, McQuillan Julia, Slauson-Blevins Kathleen S
Alfred University.
Tulane University.
Sociol Q. 2020;61(2):347-365. doi: 10.1080/00380253.2019.1625731. Epub 2019 Jun 27.
We examine responses to infertility among a sample of 2,361 women with infertility from the National Survey of Fertility Barriers. Latent class analysis uncovered seven latent classes of behavioral response which can be arranged in a rough continuum from least medicalized to most medicalized response. We then aggregated these seven categories into three schemas representing various degrees of medicalization. Women in each class combine treatment-seeking, knowledge-seeking, socio-emotional support seeking, and non-medical solution-seeking strategies. Even women pursuing the greatest degree of medicalization in their health-seeking (e.g., fertility treatments, assisted reproduction) made use of a variety of medical and non-medical health-seeking resources.
我们从全国生育障碍调查中抽取了2361名不孕女性样本，研究她们对不孕的反应。潜在类别分析揭示了七种行为反应的潜在类别，这些类别可以大致排列成一个从医疗化程度最低到最高的连续体。然后，我们将这七个类别汇总为三个模式，代表不同程度的医疗化。每个类别的女性都结合了寻求治疗、寻求知识、寻求社会情感支持和寻求非医疗解决方案的策略。即使是那些在寻求健康方面追求最高程度医疗化的女性（例如，生育治疗、辅助生殖），也利用了各种医疗和非医疗的健康寻求资源。
